Drum & Bass Howitzer - Apollo (Wip)

Easy guys,
Ive been piecing together a new deep roller of late, I've got to a point where I'd like a bit of crit before heading back into the studio for round two.

I'm undecided on the bassline, it could well do with another pass to change / tighten up the mids, I quite like the sound though.
The kick doesnt cut through as much as I'd like, a bit of EQing should sort that though.

If you have the time, I'd be very grateful for any comments you may have
cheers

Sick mate really deep stuff in here I like that, one point that I didn't like was the riser at 0.42 ish (and around 4 minutes aswell), it didn't fit in in my opinion.
For the rest tight mixdown nice freq spacing and all that really nice and tight, but the track itself bored me to hell after a while not much is happening.
So technically a really nice one but song wise quite boring in my opinion.

song composition is something I need to work on, my other tracks have had similar crit. I guess some people naturally have it, bastards. hehe.
What sort of techniques do you think I could use to add a bit more interest? More unique samples? Different bassline movement? Drum edits? All of the above? heh.

song composition is something I need to work on, my other tracks have had similar crit. I guess some people naturally have it, bastards. hehe.
What sort of techniques do you think I could use to add a bit more interest? More unique samples? Different bassline movement? Drum edits? All of the above? heh.

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You've got plenty of bass movement that's not a problem, a slowly evolving pad on the background would do miracles I believe, not too low in frequency because the bass pretty much has that covered something a bit higher to fill up the gap in the mid freqs.

I wouldn't dive in the more unique samples thing stay true to your style which is ruined if you put in all kinds of samples to make it more interesting, let the track remain clean and be your personal thing. Even if your tracks are boring as hell perhaps that is just the style you are looking for so I wouldn't take my criticism too much into account as it refers to subjective matters only. And the technical side was top work in my opinion

Nice tune. You've got the structure down and I like the way it evolves. The high end synth, pads and hats/shuffle all sound sick.

Im by no means a brilliant producer but some ideas I thought of trying would be to use a variety of kicks in the intro. In not listening off the best headphones but sounds like there might be a bit too much high end on the mid range bass synth sound. I would also love to try pitching the key up and down alternatively towards the end of every 8 or 16 bars.

As people have said, you atmospheres are really something. You nailed the intro. I'm not sure of what I think of the mid bass. Maybe cut down on the reverb a bit or take out some more highs. But other than that I think its great. Big ups!

lots of cool sounds, that bass is really unusual, personally i probably would have put a filter on to cut out some of the higher frequencies, but thats purely personal preference. the drums sound nice, again maybe roll a little bit of the highs of the hats?

Those scattered kicks at the beginning are sexy as hell both in tone and rhythm. Atmosphere at beginning is nice too. Really interesting main break, but it took a lot to get into the feel of it. I was hoping for more of the standard DnB pattern. But it sounds amazing in terms of mix and production. I'm super impressed. I thought that bass line and bass tone was super interesting, definitely cool. Great job, man.